We are about to embark on a two-week journey that kicks off in Adelaide with the Tarnanthi Art Fair and our exhibition at the Museum of Economic Botany, titled In Arrpmarintja – Creation from the Beginning. Following this, we will head to Melbourne for the opening of Watercolour Country: 100 Works from Hermannsburg, where artists, Selma Coulthard, Dellina Inkamala, and Vanessa Inkamala will be giving an artist talk accompanied by a watercolour workshop as part of their public program. If you are in Adelaide or Melbourne we hope you can join us.
Museum of Economic Botany at the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium as part of Tarnanthi Art Fair.
Exhibtion Openeing Sunday 22nd October 5.30 - 7.00pm
In Arrpmarintja – Creation from the Beginning, Central Desert artists from Iltja Ntjarra (Many Hands) Art Centre explore and record significant native plants on Country. Male artists paint the vegetation of Alyape (Palm Valley) a sacred men’s site. Women artists capture native plants around Ntaria (Hermannsburg) and along the Lharapinta (Finke River), reflecting on their uses and meanings, and inscribing them with their Western Aranda names.
Tarnanthi Art Fair
Tarnanthi Art Fair returns as both a physical and online event. The physical Art Fair will be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre between the20th –22nd Oct 2023, Fri 5–8.30pm, Sat–Sun 10am–5pm Alternately, you can purchase works through our Tarnanthi online portal
from Fri 5pm - Sun 5pm: https://tarnanthiartfair.com.au/art-centres/iltja-ntjarra-art-centre/
ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: WATERCOLOUR COUNTRY 100 WORKS FROM HERMANNSBURG.
Exhibition opens 27th Oct with
Artist talk Sat 28 Oct, 3pm–4pm
Join us on the 28th October withNational Gallery of Victoria curator Sophie Gerhard who will be hosting an informal conversation with Dellina Inkamala, Selma Coulthard and Vanessa Inkamala, to mark the opening of Watercolour Country, an exhibition that represents the ethereal beauty of Aranda Country and the cultural stories that are embedded within the landscape as shown in the works made over generations of artists, including works by past and present Iltja Ntjarra artists.
Join the panel for this rare opportunity as they walk guests through the exhibition, and provide personal insights into one of Australia’s oldest continuing schools of art.
Below images:
left: Albert Namatjira
MacDonnell Ranges at Heavitree Gap (early 1950s)
watercolour on board
Right: Recent NGV acquisition of our collaborative work by Selma Coulthard, Vanessa Inkamala,
Kathy Inkamala, Dellina Inkamala, Betty Namatjira, Mona
Lisa Clements, Dianne Inkamala, Delray Inkamala, Mandy
Malbunka, Bronwyn Lankin, Tina Malbunka
Woven in time 2022
Watercolour pigment on silk screen
FEATURED ARTISTS
Emerging Artist:
Delray Inkamala
Rraatninga
38 x 56.5cm
Established Artist:
Vanessa Inkamala
Tjoritja (West MacDonnell Ranges), NT 27 x 36cm
Established artist:
Betty Namatjira Wheeler
Tjoritja (West MacDonnell Ranges), NT
21 x 31cm
Iltja Ntjarra art centre is proudly supported by, and members of:
